Vaccination campaign reaches more than 729 000 people in Haiti
With the support of WHO/PAHO and other partners including UNICEF, International Medical Corps, the Red Cross and Gavi, the Vaccine...
Central African Republic: Inside the cholera epidemic
The little mud house is surrounded by four fresh graves. Actually, they can hardly be called graves. They are just mounds of earth,...
Doctors advise precaution as Mumbai registers 7 cases of cholera in July
The civic body recorded seven cases of cholera in July from different wards in the city. Following this, even though all patients were...
Stopping a cholera outbreak in South Sudan
In a move to prevent a cholera outbreak from spreading, the Ministry of Health of South Sudan with support from the World Health...
Putting household water treatment products to the test
WHO’s new International Scheme to Evaluate Household Water Treatment (HWT) Technologies ensures that products used to treat water in...
Health in 2015: from MDGs to SDGs
I "Snapshots" on 34 different health topics outline trends, achievements made, reasons for success, challenges and strategic priorities...
Cholera – United Republic of Tanzania
Disease Outbreak News The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) of Tanzania has notified WHO of additional laboratory-confirmed...
Modelling the effect of vaccines on cholera transmission
Cholera is a diarrhoeal disease that is caused by an intestinal bacterium, Vibrio cholerae. Recently an outbreak of cholera in Haiti...